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medical surveillance

The monitoring of individuals who may have been exposed to a pathogen or noxious thing in the environment, or the detection of the early symptoms of disease.

medical surveillance

Epidemiology The monitoring of individuals who may have been exposed to a pathogen or noxious thing in the environment, or detection of the early symptoms of disease

medical surveillance

Careful, repeated assessment of a person exposed to a pathogen, to see if he develops the illness it causes.
See also: surveillance
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